OpenAI takes on Microsoft with the launch of what feels a whole lot like ChatGPT's own office suite
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β’Tue, 29 Sep 2026 17:45:51 +0000
π° What Happened
At its Dev Day event in San Francisco, OpenAI announced new ChatGPT features aimed at office workers. The company says they work like an office software suite.
The biggest is Space, a shared workspace inside ChatGPT where coworkers and AI agents work together on tasks. Files and pages live together there, like in a drive. Users can give a page instructions, such as checking a team channel and updating it.
π The Backstory
OpenAI also launched Pages, a writing tool that looks like an answer to Google Docs and Microsoft Word. And it showed collaborative slides, its answer to PowerPoint, which can be made just by talking about them.
OpenAI has long been a close partner of Microsoft. Now it is going after Microsoft's main business: workplace software. This shows the two companies may compete more in the future.
π― Why It Matters
Most office workers use tools like Word, Docs, and PowerPoint every day. New AI versions could change how teams write, plan, and share work, and which products companies pay for.
At its Dev Day event in San Francisco, OpenAI announced new ChatGPT features aimed at office workers. The company says they work like an office software suite.
The biggest is Space, a shared workspace inside ChatGPT where coworkers and AI agents work together on tasks. Files and pages live together there, like in a drive. Users can give a page instructions, such as checking a team channel and updating it.
OpenAI also launched Pages, a writing tool that looks like an answer to Google Docs and Microsoft Word. And it showed collaborative slides, its answer to PowerPoint, which can be made just by talking about them.
OpenAI has long been a close partner of Microsoft. Now it is going after Microsoft's main business: workplace software. This shows the two companies may compete more in the future.
Most office workers use tools like Word, Docs, and PowerPoint every day. New AI versions could change how teams write, plan, and share work, and which products companies pay for.